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Roland Garros: the draw

The draw for the second Grand Slam of the season, the French Open, is out: Roger will meet Germany's Tobias Kamke (ATP 77) in the opening round. The two have never met so far.

Roger could then play David Nalbandian (ATP 40) in the following round. Our champ has won 11 of the 19 matches against the Argentinian. After that, match no. 25 against Andy Roddick (ATP 29) is possible, before making it to the round of the last 16 against Spain's Feliciano Lopez (ATP 17) and then a possible quarter-final against Juan Martin del Potro (ATP 9) or Tomas Berdych (ATP 7). The semi-final could then bring a rematch of last year's encounter against Novak Djokovic. Roger could then eventually meet Rafa Nadal in the final.

In the last two years you suffered some heavy defeats at the GS tournaments.
All these years I thought that you can beat Nadal at RG, but.... This year is hard to believe it.
Indian astrologer Lobo has predicted that Novak will dominate the next three years, that he would win all your matches this year. I do not know much about astrology, but I sincerely hope that Mr. Lobo is wrong.
Best of luck, Roger.

A tough draw (as usual), but the other players in this draw will be more worried about playing you Roger! I watched last years SF against ND again last night in which you were amazing, but you are playing much better this year. You are the player to beat! Go Roger!!!

2) Donot worry about the draw or anything else. Simply concentrate on your job and you will surely and certainly come out victorius.Take match by match. May God bless you to the utterest core. May you lift the French open title-2012. Wish you all the best. God speed.
Thanking you,
Yours lovingly,
Rajashekar.

1) My Dear Fed,
Thank you for winning Madrid title. You can beat Nadal on any surface only if you believe in yourself that you can and will beat him. Whenever you play him please don’t get disheartened when he comes up with some bewildering returns or so. Fight for each and every point , slowly but surely you will find a way to win against him. Have great patience and nerves of steel. Kindly understand the import of words Iam writing here.
To be contd.

but if we want to go deeper , it's one of the best drills for federer to beat nadal in the final , especially if he finished his matches in straight sets ,or even not because he will have at least one day off after every match .

i want digest nadal getting his 7th RG, it's a shame that more that 50% of his titles are in mote-carlo, barcelona, rome & RG.